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Best Places To Watch Massive Autum Bird Migrations

Every autumn, more than 5 billion birds migrate across North America, crossing the... more

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Human migration will grow as climate changes take hold - experts

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Let Everyone In

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French Riot police move in to raze Calais migrant camp, "Jungle"

French riot police have begun an operation to dismantle the "jungle", a network of... more

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The Perpetual Paradoxes of Life:

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Don't stop me now: The Calais 'jungle' & No Borders Camp

French immigration minister Eric Besson has announced he will clear the makeshift... more

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Word is on the streets that Serco is letting women and children suffer

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Women on hunger strike against the conditions they and their children sufffer in detention

Mothers and Fathers at the SERCO-run Yarl's Wood detention centre near Bedford are in the second day of a hunger strike against inadequate medical care, problems over food provision and the continued detention of children there. Since opening in 2001, the Bedfordshire detention centre has been plagued by hunger strikes, self-harm incidents, a suicide and riots. It was severely damaged by fire during disturbances in 2002.

The provision of health care at Yarl's Wood has been the subject of concern and criticism for many years. In 2006 a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons found that "systems were inadequate and the healthcare service was not geared to meet the needs of those with serious health problems or ... detainees held for longer periods for whom prolonged and uncertain detention was itself likely to be detrimental to their well being." And that "the delivery of healthcare was undermined by a lack of needs assessment, weak audit and clinical governance systems, inadequate staff training in relation to trauma. Mental health care provision was also insufficient."

At that time Yarl's Wood was managed by GSL and health care was sub-contracted out to another private company, Veritas, who were not registered with the Healthcare Commission unlike all public sector health care providers. GSL subsequently lost their contract to run the detention centre to SERCO, with the health care to be provided by a subsidiary SERCO Health. Following the change over, health care provision was again criticised by the Prison's Inspector in 2008 as patchy and that there were no specialist health services for children.

In a report entitled The Arrest and Detention of Children Subject to Immigration Control, written by the Children's Commissioner for England Alan Aynsley-Green, one of the key findings was "substantial evidence that detention is harmful and damaging to children and young people" and that children held at Yarl's Wood regarded it as little more than a prison. Health care provision for minors was again criticised with "particular areas of concern are: the recording and availability of patient information; provision of follow-up care; delivery of immunisations; inadequacy of clinical care; poor care provided to children and adults with mental health needs; and consideration before removal of healthcare needs thereafter." Also criticised was the service to pregnant women.

The main conclusion of the report was that the UK should end the practice of detaining children in immigration prisons in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet the practice continues, as does the criticisms of heath care provision at the detention centre. In yesterday's Daily Mail (of all places!) an article blew the story of the latest protests inside Yarl's Wood, with numerous detainees willing to go on the record with their complaints: a mass outbreak of a virus amongst the children; an epileptic woman who suffers multiple seizures (up to 6 a day) who only has a 14 year old son to look after her who was accused of 'faking it' by staff; pregnant women, some with complications, detained with a total disregard of their well-being; the list goes on. (See also)

One woman was even forced to dial 999 when her five-month old son's temperature shot up and the medical staff at the centre ignored her requests for medical care. "He was really sick and he'd never been in that condition before. I tried telling the staff, and the staff were calling the health care but no one was coming."

http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2009/06/hunger-strikers-attacked-at-yarls-wood.html
http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2009/06/yarls-wood-update.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/432625.htmlMothers and Fathers at the SERCO-run Yarl's Wood detention centre near Bedford are in... more

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Graffitti outside Serco Holborn offices during Yarl's Wood Solidarity Protest

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Women and Children are Suffering at Yarl's Wood Detention Centre

Mothers and Fathers at the SERCO-run Yarl's Wood detention centre near Bedford are in the second day of a hunger strike against inadequate medical care, problems over food provision and the continued detention of children there. Since opening in 2001, the Bedfordshire detention centre has been plagued by hunger strikes, self-harm incidents, a suicide and riots. It was severely damaged by fire during disturbances in 2002.

The provision of health care at Yarl's Wood has been the subject of concern and criticism for many years. In 2006 a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons found that "systems were inadequate and the healthcare service was not geared to meet the needs of those with serious health problems or ... detainees held for longer periods for whom prolonged and uncertain detention was itself likely to be detrimental to their well being." And that "the delivery of healthcare was undermined by a lack of needs assessment, weak audit and clinical governance systems, inadequate staff training in relation to trauma. Mental health care provision was also insufficient."

At that time Yarl's Wood was managed by GSL and health care was sub-contracted out to another private company, Veritas, who were not registered with the Healthcare Commission unlike all public sector health care providers. GSL subsequently lost their contract to run the detention centre to SERCO, with the health care to be provided by a subsidiary SERCO Health. Following the change over, health care provision was again criticised by the Prison's Inspector in 2008 as patchy and that there were no specialist health services for children.

In a report entitled The Arrest and Detention of Children Subject to Immigration Control, written by the Children's Commissioner for England Alan Aynsley-Green, one of the key findings was "substantial evidence that detention is harmful and damaging to children and young people" and that children held at Yarl's Wood regarded it as little more than a prison. Health care provision for minors was again criticised with "particular areas of concern are: the recording and availability of patient information; provision of follow-up care; delivery of immunisations; inadequacy of clinical care; poor care provided to children and adults with mental health needs; and consideration before removal of healthcare needs thereafter." Also criticised was the service to pregnant women.

The main conclusion of the report was that the UK should end the practice of detaining children in immigration prisons in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet the practice continues, as does the criticisms of heath care provision at the detention centre. In yesterday's Daily Mail (of all places!) an article blew the story of the latest protests inside Yarl's Wood, with numerous detainees willing to go on the record with their complaints: a mass outbreak of a virus amongst the children; an epileptic woman who suffers multiple seizures (up to 6 a day) who only has a 14 year old son to look after her who was accused of 'faking it' by staff; pregnant women, some with complications, detained with a total disregard of their well-being; the list goes on. (See also)

One woman was even forced to dial 999 when her five-month old son's temperature shot up and the medical staff at the centre ignored her requests for medical care. "He was really sick and he'd never been in that condition before. I tried telling the staff, and the staff were calling the health care but no one was coming."

http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2009/06/hunger-strikers-attacked-at-yarls-wood.html
http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2009/06/yarls-wood-update.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/432625.htmlMothers and Fathers at the SERCO-run Yarl's Wood detention centre near Bedford are in... more

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Detention protests met with brutal assaults

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Obese Geese?

Migration gone wild: Geese opting for grease

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Protesters locked into concrete blocks to stop deportation to Iraq

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Libya finds 100 bodies of drowned migrants

Libyan authorities have recovered the bodies of 100 migrants trying to reach Europe... more

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2500 languages under threat worldwide

Over a dozen languages around the world have only one mother tongue speaker left.... more

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Tiny songbirds log long days while migrating

Martins and thrushes can fly as much as 300 plus miles per day.

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Bird migration shift tied to climate change

There was a time when the American goldfinch, a gregarious nesting bird, could be found in backyard feeders throughout Houston. But now, as climate change seems to be leaving its first footprints here, the bird is slowly moving its territory to the north.

The goldfinch’s subtle shift is hardly unique. Of 305 species tracked by the Audubon Society, more than half are spending the winter about 35 miles farther north than they did 40 years ago, according to a study to be released today.

The changes in migration coincide with variations in temperature over time, suggesting that many birds are responding to climate change by moving into new ranges, the researchers said. The average January temperature, for example, climbed by about 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the United States over the four decades covered in the study.

Plants and animals have always had to adjust to shifting climates, and birds have moved for a variety of reasons, ranging from urban sprawl to deforestation. But the Audubon study covers a variety of species throughout North America, prompting researchers to suspect that larger forces are at work in their changing migration habits.

“This is as close as science at this scale gets to proof,” said Greg Butcher, the lead scientist on the study and the director of bird conservation at the Audubon Society. “It is not what each of these individual birds did. It is the wide diversity of birds that suggests it has something to do with temperature, rather than ecology.”

Terry Root, a Stanford University biologist who worked on the study, said the researchers “don’t know for a fact that it is warming. But when one keeps finding the same thing over and over … we know it is not just a figment of our imagination.”

The research is based on data collected during the Audubon Society’s annual bird count in early winter, when temperature is the primary driver for birds’ migration and survival.

In some cases, species’ ranges have shifted 100 miles or more in recent decades, according to the study.

The purple finch traveled the greatest distance, moving more than 400 miles northward to spend winters along the latitude of Milwaukee, Wis., instead of Springfield, Mo.

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One of the subtle changes in connecting the dots.There was a time when the American goldfinch, a gregarious nesting bird, could be... more

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Audubon Society study bird migration shift to climate change

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Best Places To Watch Massive Autum Bird Migrations

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French Riot police move in to raze Calais migrant camp, "Jungle"

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